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The Western Digital My Passport WDBBEP0010BBL 1 TB external HDD is an excellent storage solution for users who travel often. With a massive storage capacity, this WD hard drive meets the growing demands of storing your digitized content. Get data transfer speeds of up to 5 Gbps with the USB 3.0 interface in this external HDD that makes way for consistent storage and archiving abilities. With an automatic backup utility software, this WD hard drive provides continuous backup with encryption for all your files, thereby ensuring data safety. The Western Digital My Passport WDBBEP0010BBL uses its USB cable to draw power, thus eliminating the need of an adapter.

I now have three of these hard drives in my drawer, two for regular backups and one for exchanging data with friends and for travel. First I bought one, tested for a while and decided I need three of them to replace my old drives.
I selected the first one because it was affordable and two more because I was absolutely satisfied with the first one.
Since I am a Linux user I formatted two of these drives with Linux ext3 file-system. When I do the backups I simply copy all the changed files with a little script using rsync and ext3 will preserve all the file attributes. The archiving is fast, USB 3.0 really speeds up things. The third one that I use to exchange data is left with the original file-system, it is compatible with Linux and all the Windows/Mac computers my friends are using.
The drives even have different colors, so I will always know which one to use and which one to share.Read full review